Sydir Vorobkevych
Isidor Worobkiewicz (Ukrainian: Сидір Воробкевич, Romanian: Isidor Vorobchievici, born May 5, 1836 in Chernivtsi, † September 19, 1903 ) was an Austrian writer, composer, educator, folklorist and ethnographer Bukovina. For Ivan Franko, he was " one of the first larks Ukrainian Renaissance".
Life and work
As the son of a Greek Orthodox priest and theology teacher already become orphaned early, Worobkiewicz was raised by his grandparents in town nordbukowinischen Kotzman. According to the local primary school, he went to the German school and a seminary in Czernowitz. Ordained a priest, he served nearly seven years as a priest in the Bukovina villages Davideny and Moldowitza. His first poems he published under the pseudonym Danylo in Lviv Mlaka Almanac " Galèanzyn " ( The Galicians ). Then he published a lot in various literary journals of Galicia and Bukovina. His only book of poems " At the Prut " was published with a foreword by Ivan Franko until 1901, two years before his death.
Music in Chernivtsi
1867 could be Worobkiewicz in Czernowitz, where he taught music for many years and singing at the German School and at the secondary school. In 1868, he took with Franz Krenn at the Vienna Conservatory few months private lessons in composition teaching. After the founding of Franz Joseph's University Chernivtsi the theological faculty appointed him professor of liturgical chant. As a music teacher, he brought several textbooks in German and Ukrainian languages out: " textbook for music harmony ", " General Music textbook" and song collections for elementary schools and high schools. His collection bukowinischer folk songs includes Romanian, Ruthenian, German and Jewish Liedergut of the country and led to a correspondence with Johannes Brahms Worobkiewicz.
Worobkiewicz composed a lot of secular and sacred music ( hymns, liturgical choirs, psalms ) and set to music many German, Romanian and Ukrainian texts. He also translated Ukrainian folk songs into German.
Singer Bukovina
The most intense public and cultural activity unfolded Worobkiewicz in the last third of the 19th century. He has published many poems, songs, heroic songs, stories and dramas. In his poetry, he sings of the Bukovina " homeland," "This is my Bukovina ", " mother tongue ", " On the Prut ", " Huzulenschicksal " and others. In the stories and in the epic poetry he preferred historical materials of Ukraine ( " Turkish prisoners ", " Nechai " ) or local stories from the farm life ( " A gypsy ", " Who is to blame "). From his plays were " Hnat Prybluda ", " The new Vogt " and "The Bride of Bosnia " listed on several popular platforms. Were also successful his operetta " Kaspar Rumpelmayer " ( German ) and " The Golden Mops" (Ukrainian ). His humorous stories about the fictional town Bergluzdiv (about fools city) were popular in the folk milieu.
Worobkiewicz one of the founders of the Ukrainian Cultural Association and served on the boards of the Ruska Besida Ruthenian literary- dramatic club. He made great educational work and engaged in press organs ( Bukowynska Zorja, Bukowynskyj Calendar ). He was the first Ukrainian Almanac " Ruska chata " out ( Ruthenian office, 1877), which arose linguistically genuine folk sources.
Echo
Worobkiewicz ' dramas " Hnat Prybluda " and " The Lord mandatary " still belong to the repertoire of the Municipal Theatre of Chernivtsi. His best poems have been included in textbooks. The Czernowitz Musikhochschule bears his name today. Every year a Worobkiewicz Prize is awarded to Bukovina educators and artists. His house in the former Franzensgasse (now vul. Èervnja 28 ) bears a commemorative plaque.
Source
- Peter Rykhlo, Oleg Liubkivskyj: Literature city of Chernivtsi, 2nd, revised edition. Chernivtsi 2009, pp. 45-49